Atom Egoyan
Director
Canada
Further remarks
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Never has any national cinema produced two such flat-out masterpieces in one year. Both are perfect, with TOKYO STORY being a study in simplicity and UGETSU exploring a number of wildly divergent cinematic styles. Sorry to share the space, but I needed to get both these films in.
There are so many directors whose body of work is exemplary (Godard, Tarkovsky, Bresson, Kiarostami, Pasolini, Bunuel, Visconti, Antonioni, Lang, Resnais, Fassbinder, Dreyer...) and a list of Ten Best Directors would have a very different makeup.
I am surprised that I haven't included any post-2000 works, but I haven't had the same opportunity to rewatch and reassess more recent masterpieces.
The ten films I have chosen are works I have seen several times over the years. They are all works that continue to grow with each viewing, and films that I will look forward to watching again.
